Nenuca Syquia brings heart, clarity, and courage to the messy reality of leading people. Over her 20-year career, she’s helped organizations navigate their hardest and most transformative moments and comes with a deep well of stories and insights to share.
Her work has impacted teams across industries, from scrappy start-ups to global giants like Google, Hilton, and Sanofi. She's been named a Silicon Valley Business Journal Woman of Influence and is the author of False Solutions, a leadership parable about the seduction of swift action and the harder work of seeing the full picture clearly.
Audiences love her because she brings an infectious optimism while directly challenging broken systems. Her compassion and candor land with leaders who believe, as she does, that business should be a force for good, and that it's on us to design workplaces that enrich the people inside them.
She holds a Master of Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a Master of Science in Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco. Originally from the Philippines, she lives in Silicon Valley with her husband and their dogs where she leads the business consultancy Better Organizations by Design (BOxD).
Nenuca is available for in-person and virtual events, from intimate executive sessions to full-stage keynotes. Her sweet spot ranges from 45 minutes to 90 minutes. She’s a natural fit for fireside chats, panels, workshops, and leadership gatherings.
Past events include:
Small Giants Summit
DFK International Global Conference
Professional Women in Healthcare® Leadership Summit
National Center for Healthcare Leadership – Organizational & Leadership Excellence Conference
Mastery Summit (MTS)
50/50 Women on Boards Global Summit
Newfrontiers Summer Spotlight
Themes
Most "people problems" are actually design problems. Looking beneath the symptoms of poor performance to the system underneath and why replacing the person almost never fixes it.
False Solutions: why the fast fix is so seductive. Why smart leaders reach for changes in good faith and what the harder, slower work of seeing the whole picture actually involves.
Understanding the hard work of change. Nenuca’s career of helping leaders through their most difficult moments of change has equipped her with a unique perspective on how to manage it – from mergers to executive transitions to major strategic pivots.
When companies outgrow founders. Nenuca has deep experience helping founder-led companies at the key inflection point of outgrowing the way it’s run, and when the founder becomes a bottleneck.
AI is quietly reshaping your culture. If your people are using AI to think, write, and decide, a new system is shaping behavior inside the company that nobody designed and nobody is accounting for.
Unwritten rules and the outsider's advantage. Nenuca is very good at spotting when a company is running on unwritten rules it doesn’t want to admit to. Part of her work is making inclusion an org design argument instead of a program stacked on a broken system.
Business as a force for good. Business leaders focusing on enriching their people's lives isn't just about morality, it’s also about performance: what's good for people is good for business.
Additional territories:
Leadership Development
Team Dynamics
Talent Pipelines
Workplace Culture
